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Over the last few days we have been witness to another well coordinated attack by extremists in India. Reports indicate that hundreds have been killed and/or wounded. These attacks serve as a reminder that the world is indeed a very unsafe place during this time. The primary target(s) of these attacks were westerners.This fact unto itself is very unfortunate, as Americans just went to the polls and proved that this is the most compassionate, the most free and the best place in the world to raise a family. The last election is a direct indicator of how Americans view their neighbors, no matter what the race or religious background may be. When we went to the polls, we told these maniacs that “yes we hear you”, we know that our occupation of Iraq is wrong. We know that the continued push into your national politics is wrong. And yet, the extremists refuse to hear us. It seems that our message has fallen on deaf ears. This last fact can only mean that it is not the present situation in Iraq and Afghanistan that is causing the hostilities, or our bad foriegn policy that is driving the armed response that we have now recieved. It can only mean that these Islamic extremists have placed a price on the heads of westerners as a referendum on our way of life.

So what should our response be? How does a civilized society deal with this type of hostility? At this point, one can only think, that any further negotiation, any type of dialouge or any type of good will, can only serve to endanger westerners more than they already are. Should the political dialouge now include a larger armed response by the United States and her allies? And as for our allies who backed away, because of the war in Iraq, do they now know that this problem is not going to go away on its own? Do they now know that our way of life is truely endangered?

What these terrorist factions do not understand, is that the United States is still the sleeping tiger that it was prior to world war two. We are fighting the current terrorist threat with one hand tied behind our back. Should the United States decide to do something like activatng the draft, and the infrastructure for this is already in place through the selective service registration. The result of this would give the Army the ability to activate divisions of troops within a year of doing so, rather that field brigade size units. How would the Pakistani government feel if we sent two divisions into the country? Considering the fact that they are a countrty out of control, and most definetly in possession of nukes, no one the world community could blame the U.S for seizing control of a rouge nation that is armed with such weapons. At this time the dooms day clock as moved that much closer to midnight, it is the duty of the civilized world stop the threat by whatever means necessary.